Quotes & Sayings About Silent Bystanders

But even in the absence of direct interference by those who had the power to interfere, the process was usually aborted by the non-availability of one of more elements of the process - the accumulated stock in a money form, the labor-power to be utilized by the producer, the network of distributors, the consumers who were purchasers. One or more elements were missing because, in previous historical social systems, one or more of these elements was not commodified or was insufficiently commodified. — Immanuel Wallerstein

Time for reflection and interaction is a casualty of the digital age, and one of the primary goals of higher education should be to reclaim this time. — Jose Antonio Bowen

What is it about friendship that makes being among friends so much richer than being among the most accomplished and interesting strangers?"---Connecting — Sandy Sheehy

If we're honest with ourselves, our user experience hadn't kept up with the competition. In the first ten years eBay created the market. Now we're positioning ourselves to innovate off our core platform. This is not a project. We're never done. — John Donahoe

Technology displaces workers in the short run but does not lead to mass unemployment in the long run. — Charles Wheelan

Dance music is so interchangeable. There's not a lot of face to it. It's a bunch of Dutch DJs with the same haircut. — Diplo

Nader's data could not have been clearer, or more unsettling. He demonstrated that the very act of remembering something makes it vulnerable to change. Like a text recalled from a computer's hard drive, each memory was subject to editing. First you have to search the computer for the the text and then bring it to the screen, at which point you can alter it and save it. Whether the changes are slight or extensive, the new document is never quite the same as the original. — Rebecca Skloot

She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time. — Azar Nafisi

What is it about women that they just go right for the guy that totally repulses them? — Alison Brie